Intellectual Disparity Quotes
He raised an intellectual alarm that scientists were generally ignorant of the liberal arts and non-scientists were scientifically illiterate. This was not good for society where both were needed for making public policy and developing our society. He was quite influential in British and American higher education where many colleges added required science courses to liberal arts curricula and vica versa. However by the 21st century, the sciences had advanced at such a rapid pace, that the taking of a few college level science courses was not sufficient to produce a scientific literacy, and the problem was no better than in the 1950s.
Typical in most ages is the view that the current generation is not at a par with those that came before.
Snow was one of the first people to call attention to problem of the intellectual gulf between most educated people and scientists. As politicians generally fall into the former group, they have had a particularly difficult dealing with scientific issues since the scientific revolution of the 20th century produced this cultural chasm. See {635974} for one of his conclusions.
